gitlab-ci: restrict maximum number of link jobs on Windows

The hosted Windows runners on GitLab.com only have 7.5GB of RAM. Given that "link.exe" provided by Microsoft Visual Studio is multi-threaded by itself already and thus quite memory hungry this can quickly lead to memory starvation, out-of-memory situations and thus failed CI jobs. Fix the issue by limiting the number of concurrent linker jobs. The same issue hasn't been observed on GitHub Actions yet, probably because it got more than twice the amount of RAM with 16GB. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
gitgitgadget · Jan 30, 2025 · 8ce506d · 8ce506d
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diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ build:msvc-meson:
   extends: .msvc-meson
   stage: build
   script:
-    - meson setup build -Dperl=disabled
+    - meson setup build -Dperl=disabled -Dbackend_max_links=1
     - meson compile -C build
   artifacts:
     paths: